According to the investigation, the minors who denounced ill -treatment and sexual abuses burned mattresses in the room where they had been locked up after trying to flee a day earlier.
Judge Ingrid Cifuentes deemed “responsible” the six ex-functionaries (director or manager of the home security, police) of manslaughter and abuse of power. One of the co-accused has been acquitted. All had claimed the release.
Some of the present survivors and parents of victims listened to tears the facts recalled by the judge.
“Let them burn, these whore girls,” said the fire alerted to the fire and held the key to the room.
At the statement of the verdict of the cries sounded: “Justice for the daughters of the Hogar Seguro!”, The name of the Home of Asuncion where minors were placed with their family or orphans.
The coordinator of the NGO “Mujeres Transformendo El Mundo”, Paula Barrios, civil party in the trial started in January 2024, told AFP hoping that this sentence would be a “non-registration guarantee” of such a tragedy and that the 15 survivors as well as the families of the 41 deceases would receive “adequate repair measures.